Matthew 19:4

Bible in Basic English (1941)

And he said in answer, Have you not seen in the Writings, that he who made them at the first made them male and female, and said,

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  • Gen 5:2 : 2 Male and female he made them, naming them Man, and giving them his blessing on the day when they were made.
  • Gen 1:27 : 27 And God made man in his image, in the image of God he made him: male and female he made them.
  • Gen 2:18 : 18 And the Lord God said, It is not good for the man to be by himself: I will make one like himself as a help to him
  • Gen 2:23 : 23 And the man said, This is now bone of my bone and flesh of my flesh: let her name be Woman because she was taken out of Man.
  • Luke 10:26 : 26 And he said to him, What does the law say, in your reading of it?
  • Mal 2:15 : 15 ... So give thought to your spirit, and let no one be false to the wife of his early years.
  • Matt 12:3 : 3 But he said to them, Have you no knowledge of what David did when he had need of food, and those who were with him?
  • Matt 21:6 : 6 And the disciples went and did as Jesus had given them orders,
  • Matt 21:42 : 42 Jesus says to them, Did you never see in the Writings, The stone which the builders put on one side, the same has been made the chief stone of the building: this was the Lord's doing, and it is a wonder in our eyes?
  • Matt 22:31 : 31 But about the dead coming back to life, have you no knowledge of what was said to you by God in the Writings:
  • Mark 2:25 : 25 And he said to them, Have you no knowledge of what David did, when he had need and was without food, he, and those who were with him?
  • Mark 12:10 : 10 Have you not seen this which is in the Writings: The stone which the builders put on one side, the same was made the chief stone of the building:
  • Mark 12:26 : 26 But as to the dead coming back to life; have you not seen in the book of Moses, about the burning thorn-tree, how God said to him, I am the God of Abraham, and the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob?
  • Luke 6:3 : 3 And Jesus said, Have you not seen in the Writings what David did when he was in need of food, he, and those who were with him;

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  • Mark 10:2-11
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    2And Pharisees came to him, testing him with the question, Is it right for a man to put away his wife?

    3And he said to them in answer, What did Moses say you were to do?

    4And they said to him, Moses let us give her a statement in writing, and be free from her.

    5But Jesus said to them, Because of your hard hearts he gave you this law.

    6But from the first, male and female made he them.

    7For this cause will a man go away from his father and mother, and be joined to his wife;

    8And the two will become one flesh; so that they are no longer two, but one flesh.

    9Let not that which has been joined together by God be parted by man.

    10And in the house the disciples put questions to him again about this thing.

    11And he said to them, Whoever puts away his wife and takes another, is false to his wife;

  • Matt 19:5-10
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    5For this cause will a man go away from his father and mother, and be joined to his wife; and the two will become one flesh?

    6So that they are no longer two, but one flesh. Then let not that which has been joined by God be parted by man.

    7They say to him, Why then did Moses give orders that a husband might give her a statement in writing and be free from her?

    8He says to them, Moses, because of your hard hearts, let you put away your wives: but it has not been so from the first.

    9And I say to you, Whoever puts away his wife for any other cause than the loss of her virtue, and takes another, is a false husband: and he who takes her as his wife when she is put away, is no true husband to her.

    10The disciples say to him, If this is the position of a man in relation to his wife, it is better not to be married.

  • Gen 5:1-2
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    1This is the book of the generations of Adam. In the day when God made man, he made him in the image of God;

    2Male and female he made them, naming them Man, and giving them his blessing on the day when they were made.

  • Matt 19:3
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    3And certain Pharisees came to him, testing him, and saying, Is it right for a man to put away his wife for every cause?

  • Gen 2:22-25
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    22And the bone which the Lord God had taken from the man he made into a woman, and took her to the man.

    23And the man said, This is now bone of my bone and flesh of my flesh: let her name be Woman because she was taken out of Man.

    24For this cause will a man go away from his father and his mother and be joined to his wife; and they will be one flesh.

    25And the man and his wife were without clothing, and they had no sense of shame.

  • Gen 1:27-28
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    27And God made man in his image, in the image of God he made him: male and female he made them.

    28And God gave them his blessing and said to them, Be fertile and have increase, and make the earth full and be masters of it; be rulers over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the air and over every living thing moving on the earth.

  • Eph 5:31
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    31For this cause will a man go away from his father and mother and be joined to his wife, and the two will become one flesh.

  • Luke 20:33-34
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    33When they come back from the dead, whose wife will she be? for all the seven had her.

    34And Jesus said to them, The sons of this world are married and have wives;

  • Matt 22:28-31
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    28When they come back from the dead, then, whose wife will she be of the seven? because they all had her.

    29But Jesus said to them in answer, You are in error, not having knowledge of the Writings, or of the power of God.

    30For when they come back from the dead there are no husbands and wives, but they are as the angels in heaven.

    31But about the dead coming back to life, have you no knowledge of what was said to you by God in the Writings:

  • Matt 5:31-32
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    31Again, it was said, Whoever puts away his wife has to give her a statement in writing for this purpose:

    32But I say to you that everyone who puts away his wife for any other cause but the loss of her virtue, makes her false to her husband; and whoever takes her as his wife after she is put away, is no true husband to her.

  • 1 Cor 11:8-9
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    8For the man did not come from the woman, but the woman from the man.

    9And the man was not made for the woman, but the woman for the man.

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    18And the Lord God said, It is not good for the man to be by himself: I will make one like himself as a help to him

  • Deut 24:1
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    1If a man takes a wife, and after they are married she is unpleasing to him because of some bad quality in her, let him give her a statement in writing and send her away from his house.

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    27You have knowledge that it was said, You may not have connection with another man's wife:

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    18Everyone who puts away his wife and takes another, is a false husband: and he who is married to a woman whose husband has put her away, is no true husband to her.

  • John 4:17-18
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    17In answer, the woman said, I have no husband. Jesus said to her, You have said rightly, I have no husband:

    18You have had five husbands, and the man you have now is not your husband: that was truly said.

  • Mal 2:15
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    15... So give thought to your spirit, and let no one be false to the wife of his early years.

  • 1 Cor 7:2
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    2But because of the desires of the flesh, let every man have his wife, and every woman her husband.

  • Mark 12:23
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    23In the future life, when they come back from the dead, whose wife will she be? for the seven had her for a wife.

  • Luke 20:28
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    28Master, Moses said that if a man's brother comes to his end, having a wife, but no children, his brother is to take the wife, and get a family for his brother.

  • Matt 22:1
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    1And Jesus, talking to them again in stories, said:

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    16Or do you not see that he who is joined to a loose woman is one body with her? for God has said, The two of them will become one flesh.

  • 1 Cor 7:4
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    4The wife has not power over her body, but the husband; and in the same way the husband has not power over his body, but the wife.

  • 1 Tim 2:13
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    13For Adam was first formed, then Eve;